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• [marginalium] Is Democracy Strong Enough for Trump? — 27 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Is macroeconomics useless? — 26 Jan 2025
• [article] Addictive Work — 24 Jan 2025
  The neural reward circuit implies that small, rewarding tasks that share environmental context are going to be the most addictive, so break tasks into small steps that end in a clear good feeling and optimise for a shared environment.
• [marginalium] Open source GPT-o1 — 23 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Rationalists discover 'vibes' — 23 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Elite readers using 4chan — 23 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Modern determinism; free will dies again — 23 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] The number of exceptional people — 23 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Thoughts on AI use-cases. — 23 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Why knowing things is hard — 17 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] ChatGPT isn't so bad for the environment — 17 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Against Optimisation — 17 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Storing data generationally — 17 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Is Elon Musk lying about how good he is at games? — 17 Jan 2025
• [article] BDSM as a lazy ideology — 17 Jan 2025
  BDSM is an ideology stack—a collection of behaviours borne of a culture that surrounds some core set of human needs. But is it lazy? Hard to tell. It seems easy to explain away parts of it as hormone hijacking and socialisation, but there is something deeper there.